Chicken-catcher.



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PATRICK ANDREWS, F NORFOLK, VRGNIA CHICKEN-CATCHEE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

latented J an. 113e 91H1:

Application filed April 12, 1913. Serial No. 760,695.

` object to provide a device of this character' wherein the leg of a chicken or ,fowl can be caught and held so that a person can handle the chicken or fowl after being caught or catch the fowl 'without the necessity of shooting or chasing the same when free.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a device of this character in which the hook for engaging the leg of the chicken is of novel form so that the leg of a chicken can be gripped when the same is free, the hook being designed to prevent the release of the leg of the chicken, thus permitting the secure holding of the same without possi.- hility ofl the release thereof after being caught.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a device of this character which is extremely simple in construction, capable of extension or contraction, reliable and etlicientin operation, and inexpensive in manufacture.

lith these and other objects in view, the invention consists in the construction, com bination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawing, and pointed out in the claim hereunto appended.

In the drawing JFigure l is a side elevation of a device constructed in accordance with the invention, the saine being shown extended. Fig. Q is a similar' view showing the device contracted. Fig. 3 is a sectional view on the line 3-3 of Fig. l. Fig, et is a vertical longitudinal sectional view through the hook end of the device, the saine being on a large scale.

Similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views in the drawing.

Referring to the drawing by numerals, the device comp-rises a handle 5 which' may be of any desirable length and is preferably of lcircular formation in cross section, the saine graduall tapering from one end to the other. The andle is made from wood,

although it may :be made from any other material having the reqnisite strength.

Fixed to the largerend of the handle 5 is a member (i, one end of which projects beyond one side of the said handle and is formed with an eye T' through which is passed a slidable rod S, the same being also.

passed through a secondary eye member 9 suitably fixed to the handle in alinement with the eye '7, the inner end of the rod 8 being convoluted to `form a double coil 10 which loosely embraces the handle 5, and when this rod 8 is moved inwardly the inner end 10 is designed to engage in a spring clip 'Il suitably mounted upon the handle 5 so as to hold the said rod, thereby per1nitting the device to be conveniently carried from one point to another, yet when the device is to be used 'the rod 8 is moved outwardly.

Formed at the outer end of the rod 8 is auiain hook comprising a main arm' 12 which merges'into the short arm 13 integral with or fixed to the said outer end of the rod 8, the arms being arranged angularly with relation to each other to form an entrance Aspace therebetween, and this space is normally closed by means' of a .supplemental hook or catch le mounted upon a. resilient spring l5 at the free end thereof, the epposite end of the said spring being suitably fixed vto the short arm 13 of the hook, the secondary hook 11i being curved in the direction of the elbow of the main'hook so that.

when the device 'is manipulated and pressure is applied to the supplemental hook 14: the latter will be displaced against the resistance of the spring 15, thus permitting the leg of the fowl to pass into the space between the arms of the main hook l2 and and thereafter the spring 15 will move the supplemental hook erilatch let into closing relation with respect.- to the main hook, thus firmly gripping the leg of the fowl for holding the saine.

lt will be seen that if a small fowl is caught` the leg will well down into the space between the arms of the main hook w lich is substantially Vlshanathwhile in attaching the device' to a 'larger fowl the leg 105 hook after it is caught thereby so that the M0 e through the said eye and having the said handle, a resilient clip fixed to the handle bet-Ween its ends and engageable with one of the convolutons to hold the rod in adjusted position, a rearwardly divergent hookterminal formed on the outer end of 20 the rod, anda spring-held latch Working through the rod and adapted to normally close the hook terminal, the said latch being forwardly curved.v

In testimony lwhereof aiiiX my signature 25 in presence of two witnesses.

PATRICK P. ANDREWS. 7Witnesses C. M. SPEESE, J'. A. TURK. 

